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What Happens When a Popular Instagram Account with 8 Million Followers Posts a Picture

As if you needed more proof that celebrities live in a different world than us: here’s what happens when an Instagram account with 8 million followers (this particular one shows the 433 soccer account) posts a picture and then gets deluged with likes, comments, emojis, and whatever other notification. There’s no sad awkward moment before…

Ominous Mickey Mouse Robot Head Is a Music Visualizer

We’ve come a long way from Steamboat Willie. This week, Mickey Mouse takes the form of a faceless audio-visual orb that visualizes any music it hears. Designed by Polish design firm PanGenerator, Mickeyphon is a giant A/V unit shaped like Mickey’s noggin. When it hears music it swirls about its axis in the direction of…

Any Movie Studio Can Make Its Own Star Wars Movie Right Now

Star Wars is back. The space-opera juggernaut that ruled the late 70s and early 80s is once again reigning supreme over pop culture. Disney paid $4 billion for the contents of George Lucas’ toybox. But really, any movie studio that wants to can make its own Star Wars movie. (They just can’t call it “Star…

Village of Whitesboro Votes to Keep Racist Seal of White Man Strangling Native American Man

Yes, this is the official seal of Whitesboro, New York. And it will likely continue to be. According to Whitesboro’s mayor, the residents just voted 157-55 to keep using this symbol to represent themselves to the world. When the US finally decided to start taking down its more overt symbols of racism last year, Whitesboro’s…

J.K. Rowling Celebrated the End of Harry Potter by (Very Lightly) Trashing Her Hotel Room

Many a rock star has trashed a hotel room to celebrate a triumphant performance. It turns out rock stars of the children’s literature world do the same, they just tend to be a lot more polite about it. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling tweeted the below picture, confessing that when she was done writing the…

DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Will Meet Up With Jonah Hex

No, you didn’t fall down and hit your head. The CW and DC are really letting Legends of Tomorrow spend part of its very first season time traveling to the Old West. Where they’ll meet up with Jonah Hex. When you have a show that involves time travel, that opens up all kinds of doors.…

$35,000 Worth of Fake Fitbits Seized at US Border

U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently seized a shipment of fake Fitbits coming from Hong Kong. The total haul was just 350 counterfeit wearables, but they’re estimated to be worth about $35,000. The counterFitbits weren’t explicitly deemed a safety hazard, but instead were flagged for infringing on Fitbit’s intellectual property rights. The fake wearables were…

Snooty Canadian Designers Are Pissed Off at Their Government

Canada is celebrating its 150th birthday in 2017 and all sorts of preparations are being made for the big shebang. But the sesquicentennial has been sullied by news that the government is being real cheap when it comes to the graphic design. In-house designs which were tested with audiences in 2013 Back in 2013, the…

Sabrina the Teenage Witch Is Way Weirder Than You Remember

Sabrina the Teenage Witch dominated the TGIF lineup when it premiered in 1996. It aired Friday nights on ABC, alongside Boy Meets World, Family Matters, and Two of a Kind. And it was much, much weirder than any of those. And weirder than even just a regular show about a teenage witch might have been.…

It Worked Out Well for TV, So Boogie Board’s Drawing Tablets Are Finally Adding Color

Kids love to draw, but unfortunately they don’t always limit their canvas to just paper. Boogie Board’s cheap LCD drawing tablets ensure you’ll never have to scrub crayon doodles off your walls, and now they’re finally introducing a splash of color. The Boogie Boards have only ever been available in monochromatic palettes, including the recent…

Researchers Want To ‘Build’ Their Own 3D Shark with Beastcam

The giant blue crab that is swooping down on that gecko is known to the people of the University of Massachusetts as Beastcam. It can scan a car in 45 seconds flat. Hopefully it can scan a live shark in less. The first step to creating Beastcam was an abject failure. University of Massachusetts, Amherst,…

Sunken Bronze Age Settlement Is the ‘Pompeii’ of Britain

Archaeologists in Britain have uncovered the charred remains of a 3,000-year-old stilted wooden structure that plunged into the river after it caught fire. The remarkably well-preserved roundhouse is offering an unprecedented glimpse into what domestic life was like during the Bronze Age. This remarkable settlement in East Anglia was occupied at the end of the…

The Evolution Of Robots In Movies and TV

Science fiction movies and TV shows don’t really count unless they have iconic robot characters. That’s a completely true statement, by the way. Nobody cares how good a story is unless they can pretend living in a reality where sentient robots, awesome droids, and fun little machine pals exists. We want to live in the…

VR Roller Coaster Sounds Awesome—and Pukey

Virtual reality already makes some people woozy. For others, roller coasters are also a motion-sickness nightmare. What happens when you mix two stomach-turning activities? A theme park in the UK is going to find out. Today, Alton Towers, a theme park in Staffordshire, England, announced it would debut a VR experience called Galactica this April.…

Relive the Majesty of the Historic Falcon Landing With Gratuitous Guitar Shredding

Did you know you were waiting for an epic supercut of SpaceX’s historic Falcon 9 launch and landing, complete with a suspenseful soundtrack and a victorious cheering scene that looks like it was ripped straight out of The Martian? Probably not, but SpaceX has delivered! At this point, you’ve certainly heard that SpaceX made history…

Does Director George Miller Suddenly Not Want to Make Any Mad Max Movies?

After everything we’ve heard about how the original plan was to film Fury Road and its sequel at the same time and about how the George Miller already wrote the sequel, you’d expect him to go ahead and make it. What’s this now? Suddenly Miller’s out? A statement from Miller appears on Page Six and,…

There’s Something Surprising Lurking in Ceres’ Mysterious Bright Spots

Dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spots are perhaps the strangest of all its features. Now we’re finally in a low-enough altitude to get an unprecedented close-up look—and what we’re seeing may only have deepened the mystery. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft swung into its lowest orbit yet—a cool cruising height of 240 miles and started snapping pictures of…

6 Heroes Who Had Their Asses Thoroughly Kicked by Wonder Woman

It’s amazing that anyone would ever dismiss Wonder Woman. She’s a better fighter than Superman, and more powerful than 99.9 of most other DC characters… and she’s got the fight card to prove it. Besides all the villains she’s defeated, here are some of the fellow superheroes she’s had occasion to trounce. 1) Batman Let’s…

Google CEO Sundar Pichai just announced that the 2016 I/O conference—the annual dev get together about all things Android and Alphabet—will be held May 18-20. We’ll get a look at Android N (Nutter butter?) as well as updates on Alphabet’s more ambitious projects. Mark your calendars, people.

Watch the Trailer for BloodMania, Directed by the Legendary ‘Godfather of Gore’

It’s been over 50 years since Herschell Gordon Lewis directed exploitation classic Blood Feast. And now the 86-year-old, whose gleefully bloody filmography dominated drive-ins in the 60s and early ’70s, has a brand-new picture: horror anthology BloodMania. Lewis took a few decades off from the splatter-movie biz to make a mint in the decidedly more…